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disconfirm

verb

Etymology

From dis- + confirm.

  1. derived from confirmo
  2. derived from confermer
  3. inherited from confirmen
  4. prefixed as disconfirm — “dis + confirm”

Definitions

  1. To establish the falsity of a claim or belief

    To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.

    • The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it.
    • As a result, if facts disconfirm the officially sanctioned theoretical vision, they are subordinated.

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